Trading and Investment Terminology

Y2K

Y2K is the shorthand expression for "the year 2000" normally used to allude to a broad computer programming shortcut that was believed to result in extensive devastation as the year moved from 1999 to 2000.

Rather than permitting ...

Yankee Bond

Yankee Bonds are issued by foreign entities (bank or company). These bonds are issued and traded in the United States and denominated in U.S. dollars. Yankee bonds are governed by the Securities Act of 1933. According to the Act, bonds have to be ...

Year Over Year

Year Over Year or YOY is a commonly utilized economic tool for contrasting between two or more quantifiable events on an yearly premise.

Examining year over year performance enables for checking if an organization's financial performan ...

Year to Date

Year to date (YTD) refers to the timeframe from the first day of the current calendar year or fiscal year up to the present date.

YTD data is helpful for analyzing business trends over time or contrasting performance information to contend ...

Yellow Knight

Yellow knight is a company or corporation which is once planning a hostile takeover attempt on a company but instead decide to propose a merger deal to the target company. Means if you cannot beat a company then better to join it. There might have ...

Yellow Sheets

Yellow sheets are the bulletins that contain information about the price of corporate bonds on over the counter (OTC) market. In yellow sheets, you can get the information about the bond's high, low, closing price, yield, bid price, and ask pr ...

Yield

Yield can be defined as the earnings created on an investment over a specific time frame.

It's formatted as a rate, dependent on the invested sum, present day market worth, or face value of the stock.

It incorporates the intere ...

Yield Advantage

The additional amount which an investor expects to earn by investing in a publicly traded company's convertible securities instead of its common stocks or can continue to earn instead of converting bonds into stocks is known as yield advantage ...

Yield Burning

Yield burning was an illegal practice of underwriter marking up the price of bonds to reduce the yield on bonds. By this amount of tax is reduced which is incurred on fixed income investments. With yield burning major Wall Street U.S. municipal bo ...

Yield Curve Risk

Yield curve risk is the probability of shifting yield curve in a manner that it affects the values of securities which are tied to interest rate, particularly bonds. When there is an adverse shift in market interest rate, the yield of fixed income ...

Yield On Cost (YOC)

Yield on Cost (YOC) can be defined as a ratio of dividend yield determined by dividing a security's present dividend by the cost first paid for that security.

For instance, if an investor bought a security 5 years back for Rs. 1400, an ...

Yield On Earning Assets

The yield on assets or YEA can be defined as a mainstream fiscal solvency ratio that analyzes a financial organization's interest earnings to its earning assets.

Yield On Earning Assets shows how well securities are performing by takin ...

Yield To Call

Yield to call (YTC) can be defined as a financial expression that is used to refer to the return a bond owner gets if the security is held until the call date, which happens at some point prior to it reaching maturity.

Yield to call can be ...

Yield to Maturity

YTD measures the annual return an investor would receive if he or she held a particular bond until maturity.

It is also known as redemption yield. As the name suggests, if an investment is held till its maturity date, the ra ...

Yo Yo

Yo yo is slang used to describe an exceptionally unstable market.

The name is derived from the movements made by a toy referred to as a yo yo, where stock prices continually go up and down.

A yo yo market has no distinguishing char ...

YTD-Year to date return

Year-to-date (YTD) is the period between the first day of the calendar year and the current date. 

To calculate the year-to-date (YTD) return on a portfolio, subtract the starting value from the current value and divide ...